If you watch YouTube videos or read website articles about building vegetable gardens, you’ll find stores like Home Depot trying to sell raised bed kits, topsoil etc.. You’ll end up spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars on supplies and not have a single vegetable to show for it. Besides the challenge of gardening is learning…
Home Baking (1931)
Study of Hippocrates’ “On Ancient Medicine” – Part 2, by William C. Michael
The Principal Things
A Balanced Life
We are creatures, composed of body and soul, and we cannot be happy when we do not maintain a balance in life that provides for the health of both. When we think of the motto of St. Benedict — “Ora et Labora” (Pray and Work) — we find this balance. If we read the lives…
Keep It Simple and Sustainable
When you begin the work of building a garden or developing a farm, your success will be determined by your ability to overcome one vice: impatience. The thought of having a beautiful farm filled with animals, or a peaceful garden filled with fruits and vegetables, can be difficult to contain. When we walk into a…
Study of Hippocrates’ “On Ancient Medicine” – Part 1, by William C. Michael
New Content Coming Soon!
Dear friends,
Gardening season is getting started here in North Carolina and we’ll be posting a lot on farm activities, but most importantly on ancient medicine and household simplicity. Mrs. Michael and I will be posting family podcasts from the farm, answering questions and discussion subjects we are asked about.
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God bless your families,
William C. Michael
Academy Farm & Gardens
Hippocrates on Modern Medicine
“Medicine has existed in its entirety for ages, possessing both a beginning and an established method, by means of which many and excellent discoveries have been made over a long period of time; and what remains will also be discovered, if an inquirer is competent and, being cognizant of the discoveries already made, conducts his…
Military Meats
Recently, while listening to a talk on the profitability of wars, I was surprised to learn that one of the groups that gains the most from war was the “meatpackers”. The others were expected–ammunition makers, shipbuilders, bankers, investors, manufacturers–but meatpackers?
This article in the LA Times explains the connection, which you’ll find to be very relevant to modern nutrition.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-desalcedo-military-meat-20150802-story.html